Melbourne Diocese has become the second Australian diocese to call for legislation to permit women bishops.
31 October 1997
The Standing Committee for the Diocese of Sydney has reserved $1.2 million for an Aboriginal Ministry Trust Fund. Speaking about the initiative, the Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Harry Goodhew said: "This is a good move as it is intended to encourage the development of Aboriginal Ministry in the Diocese of Sydney. It is intended to be spent on the training and developing of Aboriginal ministers who will lead and minister to their own people."
31 October 1997
A team of voluntary youth leaders from the Diocese of Melbourne is visiting South Africa in a cross-cultural leadership development programme as part of the mutual 150th anniversary celebrations of the Diocese of Melbourne and Cape Town.
21 October 1997
Papua New Guinea's worst drought in decades has prompted the Anglican Board of Mission in Australia to launch an emergency relief fund. Lucy Palmer, a PNG based journalist, writes that the gardens have withered, the earth is scorched and the weak and elderly are starting to die. "In another month thousands of our closest neighbours could be facing their worst famine this century," she writes.
26 September 1997
The Bishop of Newcastle, the Rt Revd Roger Herft, will launch a Year of Listening on 1 November to discuss the diocese's attitude to the range of human relationships which now exist in modern society.
26 September 1997
Mine is a painful story, but I'm sharing it with non-indigenous people because I want them to understand where indigenous people are coming from and how much pain they've gone through.
23 September 1997
According to figures recently released by the Australian government's Bureau of Statistics, 73.8 per cent of Australia's nearly 18 million people identify with some religious group, and 70 per cent identify with a Christian group.
03 September 1997
Archbishop of Canterbury's address at the Provincial Sesquicentenary Celebrations, Paradise, Adelaide Wednesday 30 July 1997 at 19.30 hrs
20 August 1997
Australia's only Aboriginal bishop has called on his people to apologise for killing white settlers in the past. The Rt Revd Arthur Malcolm, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of North Queensland, has said that both sides needed to apologise. He was speaking after Australia's Prime Minister and Federal Government had refused to respond to calls for a formal national apology for the so-called "stolen children". Aboriginal children removed forcibly from their parents over many decades.
26 June 1997
Australia's Church leaders have entered a growing national controversy over an independent member of Federal Parliament who is opposed to the national policy of accepting migrants from Asia.
30 May 1997